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  • Predicting Extreme Acoustic Vibrations to Keep Astronauts Safe During Launch
    The Orion spacecraft will carry the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024 and return them safely back to Earth. Researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center ran first-of-a-kind simulations on Orion’s launch abort system (LAS) on the Electra supercomputer to help reduce risk and ensure the safety of astronauts if a life-threatening event arises during launch. Read More

  • Illuminating the Gas Between Galaxies with Supercomputing
    Galaxies contain millions of stars, and they grow by pulling in gas to make even more. How gases ebb and flow between galaxies and their surroundings is an essential question that NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer is helping to answer for researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University. Read More

  • NASA’s All-Electric X-57 X-Plane: A Cleaner Way to Fly
    Just as electric cars are becoming more and more commonplace on our roads each day, aerospace engineers are seeking to make electric air transportation a reality. NASA engineers are using supercomputers to accurately predict flight conditions for the agency’s X-57 “Maxwell” electric experimental aircraft’s flight simulator. Read More

  • A Cloudy Martian Night, Through the Eyes of a Supercomputer
    As NASA’s Curiosity rover makes its way over the surface of Mars, it’s sometimes accompanied by clouds drifting by in the sky above. The NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at Ames Research Center provides Mars researchers with the necessary computing power to produce high-resolution data visualizations to study how the planet’s atmosphere works, in fine detail. Read More

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Featured Demos

On the Path to Quieter Airliner Landings
 

Scientists are rising to the challenge to reduce aircraft noise near airports. Simulations of a full-scale, large airliner provide insight into the sources of airframe noise during landing.

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Taking a Tree Census
from Space
 

Researchers are using machine learning to identify trees from shrubs across Sub-Saharan Africa and calculate all the carbon stored in this vast region’s woody vegetation for the first time.

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Predicting Orion Launch Abort System Acoustics
 

First-of-a-kind simulations are helping engineers reduce risk from acoustic vibrations generated by Orion’s Launch Abort System motor.

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Shining Light on the Cosmic Fog Around Galaxies
 

Simulations created with unprecedented resolution are helping scientists understand how galaxies co-evolve with the extensive reservoirs of gas around them.

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